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Projects

Landowner Awareness

Encouraging customary landowners to reforest their grasslands
  • Introducing the LATK
Improvement and management of teak and sandalwood in PNG and Australia
  • B. Register with Operation PGPD
Operation Painim Graun na Planim Diwai (PGPD)
  • A. Why plant trees?
  • B. Register with Operation PGPD
  • C. Are you ready to plant trees?
  • D. Apply to Operation PGPD for assistance

Encouraging customary landowners to reforest their grasslands

ITTO Project PD 552/09 aimed to create a model reforestation framework, comprising awareness, training and support services, that encouraged customary landowners in the lowlands of Central Province to reforest their grasslands with high value trees.

PIP field-tested the LATK’s awareness and data collection resources with target communities. This led to the preparation of an introductory video and user guide.

The LATK resources assembled during the project are presented below:

Improvement and management of teak and sandalwood in PNG and Australia

ACIAR Project FST/2014/069 aimed to advance the development of germplasm sources and smallholder-friendly silviculture systems for teak and sandalwood to provide new opportunities for enhancing smallholder livelihoods in these regions and achieving PNG’s plantation development target. Field research was undertaken in East New Britain and Central Provinces with the project’s outreach partners: Organisation for Industrial, Spiritual & Cultural Advancement, University of Natural Resources & Environment, and PNG Forest Authority (Central Province).

PIP added the project’s tree planting data to the Operation PGPD database. This led to the preparation of an extended Landowner Registration Form.

The LATK resource assembled during the project is presented below:

Operation Painim Graun na Planim Diwai (PGPD)

Operation PGPD aims to fast-track the PNG government’s reforestation and afforestation strategies, leading to 800,000 hectares of new trees planted by the year 2050. The program assists tree planting operations on both customary land and state land; working through the PNG Forest Authority’s regional and provincial forestry offices.

PIP developed and tested a set awareness and data collection resources for customary landowners and their outreach partners through a series of regional workshops and field visits.  This led to the formation of the LATK.

The LATK resources assembled during the project are presented below:

Note: Survey forms are also available on KoboCollect for mobile data collection.

Our Partners

We are privileged to partner with the national and international level organisations below on selected landowner awareness projects.

National Partners

International Partners